Thanks Woody I live in the country and need to build this for cellular service for my Wilson booster. Nice straight forward concept.

The attachment of the cable is done thru a hole about 4 feet above the bottom of the inner pipes. This prevents the cable from being able to lift the inner pipes up enough that they could pull out or to the top and wedge or jamb against the lower pipe. The cable is secured inside the inner pipe by a ball or wire clamp.

I really like your crank-up tower... Missed your pulley and cable explanation first time ( dear wife was asking me about extraneous BLAH and I killed the sound to hear her) Now I can see how it works!

The sleeves are to double the wall thickness and distribute stress at the joints, for stability.

how about if the joint re-enforcement pieces were welded on the outside of the 2-1/2” pole?

One 10 ft section of 2.5 inch EMT is 43 dollars at Graiger. You could sink some money in this guy.

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When you take it down for maintenance, weld an inner "sleeve" piece of slitted pipe inside the top 12" portion of the larger pipe to stop the inner pipe from wobbling inside of the "mother" pipe. Just a thought. 👍

Looks good!

There is little to no wobble as there is a 4' length of pipe "" overlap "" and thus no room to move about plus the tension cable loads it to one side, Woody

Flux welder is a welder. My mig'ging was easy as the metal is 1/8 th in. Thick, no burn thru etc. Enjoy. Ww It up stable and have not had to touch it since, rotor works well, I did guy it as the wind wants to twist the center section as it hanging on the SS wire, so I torqued it to one side with a dacron rope.

There are many ways to accomplish the construction, they have been up for about 3 years without problem. Also did a tilt over 53' winch up tower for my hex. ww

Neat idea. Curious as to how "sloppy the fit /floppy the mast" would be without the guys. What I would like to do is only go up 35' but without guys for portable temp (2 -4 hour) operations supporting at most a small 6m beam. Neat idea!!!!

Do you have a parts list. Or even intructions. This would be perfect for my repeater. Thanks

I like this one best of all the DIYers! If you could pin all the pipes together with it lowered the same wench could tilt the tower over? Of course the wench would have to be on a pulling post. or at least routed to a pulley on a pulling post. How do you fasten the cable 4 ft off the bottom of each pipe?

Glad you like it, has served me well, Enjoy Woody

There several hundred $$ invested, but its sturdy, lasts and 50 ft is a bunch. Tried surplus poles, heavy weak and did not last a wind. They splintered at 40+ ft height, collapsing.

Good work. Thank you for sharing. I'm editing to ask a question. What keeps the inner sections from hanging on the reinforcing sleeves you used to strengthen your welds when you lower the mast?

Woody, Can you provide an update on how your tower now that it's been almost a year? I loved the detail of your video, and the ingenious design and am thinking of building one like it myself.

Where the cable goes over the pulley i cant see how it goes thru the pipe. Did you cut a slot ? I would be concerned about cable abrasion as it goes thru the slot. I'm sure you have thought of that, i just cant see how it goes thru without scraping against the outer pipe.

Masts are doing great. Thinking of doing a heavy one to hoist a beam to 40 or 50 feet. My 860' horiz. Loop antenna has 2 masts now n 2 trees for support. The hinged base with the pipe hinge is the best so far n ill use that on future efforts. See my qrz page under my call sign N4MQ. Enjoy. Woody

Pretty nice setup you put together - you mentioned a website - can you provide a link to it please? Thanks for sharing your handiwork!!

any exploded in details plans? just love it

Video shows the construction details, there are more than 1 videos. Woody

Is the sleeve supposed to help the sections fit a little tighter?

any "exploded" in details plans ?

No i never did beyond the sketches of pulley and cable drawing. Hawks like to perch on them at 50 ft. Ww

so inside the outer tube there are 2 others? how long is it when completly down?

Did you have to get approved for that by the city? Where I live it sucks because the limit you to 20 ft and we have to be clear of power lines by 3 meters

Cool. Have you put a hex on it yet

Woody W can you tell me how you attached the stainless cable to the inner tube, or direct me to the website location with pictures?

Very nice. Link to the website?

Salam How I can stop the pole from moving around in circle while I placed ubnt devices like ubiquity powerbeam dish at the top section.

THere is enough spacing between the pipes to allow the stainless cable to move easily, the cable pulls up the inner pipe from the bottom and tilts the pipe just a bit AWAY from the cable aiding motion, and stainless is tough. the pulley feels the cable into the gap so it misses the outer pipe edge. I did the same thing with a 53' square box steel mast for my masts, much heavier and it works well. see:: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bNyKmJOlvdu6Yas.html merry christmas Woody

do you have a parts list for the project

A worm drive winch would be safer to use !!

Nice pole. You can afford all you ham stuff and garage full of tools but not a camera. Get a camera and put down the phone.

Everybody making video ok. But how we can see.full screen blocked with letters. Better give only script

If you look at my channel I made a tilt over crank up mast 53' out of box steel tubing-square.w2w

Nice system any drawings that i can take a peak I need something like this.73s YU5KBM

No instructions per say. Videos provide the basics and my qrz web page may assist you. N4mq